The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Tepper, Sheri S.

Tepper, Sheri S. (1929– ),
prolific American writer of speculative and (under pseudonyms) detective fiction. Tepper's characteristic blend of folklore with contemporary environmental and population issues is best seen in her time‐travel novel Beauty (1991), which uses classic fairy tales like ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Tam Lin’, and ‘The Frog King’ to structure a parable about the rape of nature in the service of anthropocentric greed. Tepper's emphatic political stance—she advocates abortion in the interest of population control and has been criticized as being anti‐sex—earn her both strong supporters and detractors.

Naomi J. Wood

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